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Kirstie Alley Acted Embarrassingly Unprofessional During Star Trek II
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
Kirstie Alley played Saavik, the half-Romulan, half-Vulcan helm officer on the U.S.S. Enterprise and protégé of Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”
She spoke with StarTrek.com in 2016, revealing how unprofessional she was during filming — and how embarrassed she was about it.
“The repercussion for me never having acted before was that I wasn't the world's best at learning lines. And I was sort of irresponsible,” Alley shared.
“I would go out every night and celebrate that I got a job in a movie,” Alley revealed, noting she would stay out too late and then come in to work unprepared.
The rest of the cast had been playing their parts since the '60s, and inspired Alley to step up. "[T]hey were all such pros. They know what the hell they're doing,” Alley said.